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NASA resurrects Voyager 1 interstellar spacecraft's thrusters after 20 years: 'These thrusters were considered dead'
NASA engineers have miraculously revived the Voyager 1 interstellar probe's backup thrusters — components that hadn't been ...
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Once ‘dead’ thrusters on the farthest spacecraft from Earth are in action again
The mission team had to take a risk by switching Voyager 1 to its primary roll thrusters and turning them on before attempting to fix and restart the heaters. The heaters could only function if ...
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‘Dead’ thrusters revived to help Voyager 1 through a communications pause
The mission team had to take a risk by switching Voyager 1 to its primary roll thrusters and turning them on before attempting to fix and restart the heaters. The heaters could only function if ...
NASA just performed a 'miracle save' for its farthest spacecraft
NASA engineers have brought a set of obsolete thrusters back from the dead on the Voyager 1 probe, just before losing their ...